单词 | to have the odds of |
释义 | > as lemmasto have the odds of ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > an opportunity > give opportunity for [verb (transitive)] > take (opportunity) catchc1425 to take‥vantage (of)1573 apprehend1586 to take odds of1596 to catch at ——1610 feea1616 seize1618 nick1634 to jump at1769 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > advantage over another privilegec1390 advantagec1405 vantage1523 overmatch1542 odds1596 pull1781 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. ii. sig. Aa5 Vnarm'd all was the knight..Whereof he taking oddes, streight bids him dight Himselfe to yeeld his loue. View more context for this quotation 1628 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Peloponnesian War (1822) 94 When..we come to undertake any danger we have this odds by it. 1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife ii. 23 I may draw now, since we have the odds of him. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. p. xvi I am not ignorant of the great Odds that the Bishop had of me, both in Education and Capacity. 1750 J. Nelson Jrnl. (1836) 23 I have the odds of you, for I have a much worse opinion of myself than you can have. 1861 J. A. Nunes Fast Folks ii. v. 38 Ulysses gains no odds of me! While I can safely boast a right which Homer never gave the sage! < as lemmas |
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